On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:43:49 +0000 babsyco babsyco babsyco@hotmail.com wrote:
If that's your attitude fine, but in that case what's the point of a live performance at all
It's an fair question. The answer to that, for those of us that do livecoding type perfomances, is the accompanying visual display (usually back projected on a large screen) that lays bare the cognitive, rather than gestural/physical process.
In this regard I take 'performance' to mean a demonstration of authenticity.
Of course it's a narrow audience able to apprreciate what is going on, but it is a legitimate performance that exposes the artist to scrutiny, I dare say at least as much as playing a guitar, and more than playing a keyboard where your hands are hidden and nobody can be sure whether you are miming to a tape or sequence as so many popular artists do.
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